you know a letter based on our meeting i don't know if i stated that i i stated that you know
when you have a 16 foot drive area not drive it was talked about this the size of the parking spot
the undersized parking spot and i stated well yeah you would probably have a smaller car like a civic
or a corolla or a cooper but that was more and that was for six spots not four spots so that's
one of the other reasons why we reduced it down to four spots, because now we have a
much bigger garage area. Before we had it on both sides, like parking. Now it's all
on one side, the parking. So it's a much bigger parking area and turning radius, and we don't
really have, we don't have any of those issues we had with six parking spots.
okay anyone else no
Tom no okay all right calendar number 395 I'm sorry Carol you done
I am thank you calendar number 39521 1217-19 East Columbia Avenue my vote is yes
my vote is no
my vote is yes
so what was that 3-2
yes 3 yes 2 no
I think so
3 yes 2 no
okay thank you
calendar number 39958
north 10th street
The attorney, again, is Alan Ockamson.
So you're still there.
Can you put your name and address on the record and spell your last name, please?
Yes, I'm still Alan Ockamson.
I'm still at 123 South Broad Street, Suite 1600, Philadelphia, PA, 19109.
Do you swear?
He's still under a carol.
Do you agree to wave and step?
Yes, I do.
Thank you.
You may proceed.
I feel like I'm having the tough ones today.
I usually have everyone in order, all ducks in order.
But this one really should be an easy one.
This is 2251 North 10th Street, right?
So this is an RM1 property, which is 1,683 square feet, the lot sizes, right?
So I wouldn't even be here in front of the zoning board, but for the fact that we're part of an overlay, where we're proposing four units, and if we're a typical RM1 property, we would only need 1,440 square feet, and we have 1,683.
But because we're in the overlay, we require 1,700 square feet, which means that we're 17 square feet short.
Given that the lot width is essentially 17 feet, we're one foot short in terms of length of this property.
But we're not seeking any dimensional variances.
So what I handed you is a packet of materials which include eight exhibits.
The first is the deed to the property, which shows that Philadelphia Developments LLC owns the property.
The second exhibit is the tax clearance, showing that they're in good standing with the city of Philadelphia.
The third exhibit is the notice of refusal.
Again, to reiterate, we're an RM1 property, and we're in an overlay district, which requires 425 square feet per unit,
and for four units, which requires 1,700 square feet.
here's our application for appeal that we filed.
Here's the zoning map.
You can see it's all orange.
And again, the only reason why we're here
is because we're in the overlay and we're just short.
And here are photographs of the property.
It's a vacant lot, showing multifamily use,
you know, just as an example.
And here are our plans.
I think the biggest thing that you really need to focus on
in terms of our plans is that we have a pass-through
going from the front of the property
to the back of the property.
And why is that important? Because that's where we're going to store our trash for this property, right? So even though it's four units, I know that the board always considers, like, where's the trash going to be stored and disposed of?
So during the course of a given week, it will be stored in the back, and then it will be brought to the front, and that's where the trash will be stored.
And that's where the trash will be stored.
And you can see we have a brick facade, you know, for this property.
And you can see we have a...
And so if you see, we actually, there were, I guess, six people that attended the meeting.
Two people voted for it.
Four people voted not in favor of it.
And the reason they voted not in favor of it was a lack of feedback from residents on the block
and a resistance to the extension request lead to close decision.
So I actually also gave you another one that I presented at that same community meeting, which I presented to the board within the past month, 9-11 West Dauphin Street, which was the same situation where I presented the same thing to this community group at the same time for the same variance request.
And in West Dauphin Street, it was a worse situation because it was an 805-square-foot lot where we were asking for two units.
So it was 402.5 square feet per unit.
While here, we're asking for 420.75 square feet per unit rather than the 425.
But as you can see, there was no pass-through for garbage.
You know, so people had it store their garbage in their house or put it underneath the stairs in the front.
And they unanimously supported this.
So I was not resistant to having feedback from more immediate neighbors.
I gave my information, you know, to them and stated if anyone had any questions or concerns, I would definitely talk to them.
um you know there was one neighbor there was one person in particular that they wanted us to talk
to who had like a half a dozen or so multi-family units within that vicinity i gave my phone number
i gave my email address you know but the fact that they're against one because we wanted them
to vote on a meeting that was well attended that you know in in this in that same meeting under the
same circumstances, they unanimously supported it, doesn't make sense. So it's not uncommon for this
board to actually grant such variances that I've requested. Not only do you look at 9-11 West
Dauphin Street, but there are two instances that I quickly looked at, you know, in the vicinity.
2152 North Percy Street, the board in November 2019 granted two units on an 805 square foot lot.
And then at 2156 North 9th Street in February of 2020, this board granted two units on a 777-square-foot lot, which were greater variances than what we're requesting under the circumstances.
Thank you.
Pardon me.
Pardon me.
Any questions from the board?
Is there anyone out there who wishes to testify in this matter?
Please raise your hand.
And Mr. Al-Nakamson, if you have your client, if your client's there, you can get he or she on.
Geysi, I to seven.
Geysi, can you virtually raise your hand?
You can unmute yourself and speak.
Ghazi, is it? You can unmute yourself.
Maybe having some technical difference. Is there anyone else, Tanya?
Okay. So, yeah, yeah. I think I should be okay now. Sorry about that.
Oh, okay. Please identify yourselves by your name for the scenario.
Hi, my name is Gazia Atasevan. I'm representing the Philadelphia Developments LLC. Good morning, everyone.
Please spell your name for the stenographer.
G-A-Z-I, first name. The last name is A-T-A-S-E-V-N.
You're swearing for him to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yeah, I absolutely do.
Thank you.
Mr. Atasevan, you heard everything I stated today.
And is it true and correct?
and would you adopt it as your own testimony yes okay thank you anyone else
after we have Mary Jones you can unmute yourself and testify
yes hello good morning again you're still under oath Miss Jones okay I just
had a question some of the community members I'm not sure if they were able
to call in today i know we got started a little bit late um what is the height of the building
What is the height of the building going to be about the roof deck?
going to be uh
Mr. Jones, the height of the building is 38 feet within the limits of the zoning code.
We're not seeking a variance for that.
But you are included in the roof deck?
Well, the roof deck is not included as part of that calculation, but we are having a roof deck as well.
okay that's all i have thank you uh anyone else out there who wishes to testify please raise your
hand no chair you can proceed thank you planning commission
this property is indicated for residential use on the comprehensive plan
this application represents a de minimis variance by being only short by 17 square feet or one foot
and depth of the required lot size for four units accordingly we have no objection to the granting
of the variance thank you very much calendar number three nine nine five eight two two five
one north 10th street my vote is yes my vote is yes my vote is yes my vote is yes
calendar number four zero zero seven nine two five seven north lyceum avenue
the attorneys are ronald patterson and stephanie boggs
stephanie you have been promoted to panelists you can unmute yourself present your case and share
your screen as necessary. Good morning. Thank you. Stephanie Boggs. Good morning. Stephanie,
please put your name and address on the record and spell your last name, and then I have a couple of
other things to ask you. Sure. Stephanie Boggs, B-O-G-G-S, 1835 Market Street, Suite 1400, Philadelphia
PA 1910. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth? Yes. And do you agree to waive the reading
of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy yes i do thank you received our letter um from the rco
yesterday um later in the day and it isn't a letter of opposition and we had our rco meeting
only a week ago so based on the letter we received yesterday and after talking to
my client this morning we would like to request a continuous of this matter
to give us some time to consider and respond to the rco's comments in their letter
Mr. Chairman you just had it Frank go back there we go they're requesting a continuance
frank okay i didn't hear any of that i'm sorry um any is there anyone out there who
objects to the request for a continuance please raise your hand
um brett are you here regarding this case if so you're gonna meet yourself
he's the next case he's the next one but he has his hand up for this one so i didn't know
yeah no i apologize okay just a little eager
okay there's no one else thank you tanya so calendar number
40079 257 north lycome avenue it will be continued and staff uh will notify uh the
applicant of the continuing state thank you thank you
calendar number 39890 2702 federal street and calendar number 39891 2703
Manton Street. The attorney is Brett Feldman. Brett, you have been promoted to a panelist.
You can unmute yourself to present your case and share your screen as necessary.
Mr. Feldman, can you put your name and address on the record, please, and spell your last name?
And then I have two other questions. Yes. Good morning, members of the board.
Yes. Good morning, members of the board.
BRETT FELDMANN, 18...
Brett Feldman, 1835 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103.
And I represent the applicant and the property owner of Three Mine Development in these two zoning cases.
Okay. And do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth?
Do you also agree to waive the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy?
you may proceed thank you i'll share screen now and uh again these are two consolidated cases
there are two properties that back up to each other the same refusal we presented these together
to the community group we have their letter of support so i'll get right to it
that community group's letter of support is grace ferry yes uh yes uh is is my
is my screen now being shared no
now it is brett you just need to go to the document
in. Okay. Are we good now? Good now. Okay. Okay. So let's get right to it. I've virtually passed
up Exhibits 1 through 11, which I'd ask to be incorporated into the record. I will go through
them, but we have the deeds, tax clearance, zoning map, letter of support for both cases from the
Graysbury Community Council, application refusal, application for appeal, zoning site plan
renderings, relevant sections of the zoning code, notice the community meeting, and the project
information form. I'll just scroll through this very quickly and get right to the relevant
photographs. This is a property in the Grace Ferry neighborhood. Here's an aerial, and these are the
two properties right here in this blue. One faces onto Federal Street, which is right here, and the
other one faces onto manton street right here uh the block itself is a uh it's owned um i2
industrial uh it is a combination of single family multi-family and then most of the remainder of the
block is now vacant uh warehouse buildings and then across the street uh over here you'll see
these are all duplexes here so it's that's that's kind of the mix of what is uh going on the block
Pre-pandemic, I sat down with the project architect, the client, and city planning and said, hey, in this kind of mishmash of zoning, what makes sense?
We were thinking about three units initially.
The consensus was two units made sense with one lot facing onto Federal, one lot facing onto Manton.
And that's what we ended up submitting for a duplex on both.
um and i will i'll just take you through the pictures real quick real quickly here um so
here is this is what looks back on manton street uh which we're trying to recreate the the curb
experience there right now it's it's these uh empty warehouses um that's the view from manton
looking to federal um and then here again is that that aerial uh here's across the street are the